Former Clason Speakers

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2012-2013

Professor Wadie Said
"The Criminal Terrorist Prosecution" 
April 5, 2013

Professor Penelope Andrews
"Conditional Interdependence and Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights" 
March 12, 2013

Professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain
"Rethinking Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence"
January 29, 2013

Professor Jennifer Gordon
"The Public Interest Lawyer and the Quest for Immigrant Workers' Rights"
October 22, 2012

2011-2012

Mary Anne Case
"You're telling me it's wrong to do to the prisoners what the Army does to its own soldiers?" Gender Performance Requirements of the U.S. Military in the War on Islamic Terrorism"
March 6, 2012

Atty. Wendy Murphy
"Campus Rape, Title IX and the New Guidelines: New Clarity and New Controversies"
January 19, 2012

Professor Richard Wilson
"Writing History in International Criminal Trials"
November 8, 2011

Professor Claudio Grossman
"The Future of the Inter-American System of Protection of Human Rights"
October 25, 2011

Ms. Jennifer Harbury
"US Torture Practice: The Guatemala Experience"
September 13, 2011

2010-2011

Professor Intisar Rabb
"Internal Criticism and Legal Change in Islamic Law: Criminal Law Reform in Iran"
February 2011

Professor Wadie Said
"Humanitarian Law Project and the Supreme Court's Construction of Terrorism"
January 2011--cancelled

Professor Wilma Liebman
"More Rights, Fewer Jobs?  Labor Law During Hard Times"
October 2010

Professor Scott Horton
"The Obama Administration and the War on Terror--Continuity or Change You Can Believe In?"
September 2010

Professor Gabriel Chin
"Quasi-Crime and Quasi-Punishment: Criminal Process effects of Immigration Status"
August 24, 2010

2009-2010

Professor Kimberly Mutcherson
"Feel Like Makin’ Babies: Mapping the Borders of the Right to Procreate in a Post-Coital World"
April 8, 2010

Professor Erin Murphy
“Databases, Deterrence, and the Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure.”
March 4, 2010

Professor Robert M. Chesney
“The Emerging Law of Military Detention: Guan- tanamo and Beyond?”
February 18, 2010

Professor Michael Wishnie
“The Immigration Debate: From the Berkshires to Washington”
October 13, 2009

Professor Laura Dickinson
“Outsourcing War and Peace”
November 2009

Professor Bethany Berger
"Williams v. Lee and the Debate Over Indian Equality"
September 2009

2008-2009

Professor David Hall"
"Multiple Intelligences and the Practice of Law"
October 8, 2008

Professor Michael Ratner
"The First 100 Days: Restoring our Constitution"
October 3, 2008

Professor Stephanie Robinson
"Election 2008: Race, Gender, Power, and the Future of America"
November 17, 2008

Dr. David Michaels
"Doubt is Their Product: Manufactured Uncertainty and Public Health"
February 5, 2009

2007-2008

Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss
“A ‘Ho New World: Raced and Gendered Insult as Ersatz Carnival and the Corruption of Freedom of Expression Norms”
April 2008

Professor Dan Kahan
“Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe—An Empirical (and Normative) Assessment if Scott v. Harris”
March 2008

Professor John Zeleznikow
“Using Information Technology to Support the Resolution of Disputes”
November 2007

Professor Anthony Roisman
“Reintegrating Public Interest Lawyering into the Legal Profession and Legal Education”
October 2007

Atty. Andrew Beckerman-Rodau ’81
“The Attack on Intellectual Property Law—Is It Justified?”
September 2007

2006-2007

Professor Cheryl Wade
"Advancing The Corporate Discourse About Race"
March 2007

Professor James Stribopoulos
"Does a Judge's Party of Appointment or Gender Matter to Case Outcomes"
February 2007

Professor Kent Greenfield
"The Failure of Corporate Law"
January 2007

Professor Robert B. Keiter
Glacier National Park and its Neighbors: A Twenty-year Study in Regional Resource Managment
October 2006

2005-2006

Professor Martha Ertman
"New Frontiers in Private Ordering"
March 20, 2006

Professor Zygmunt J.B. Platter
"Law, Media, and Environmental Policy: A Fundamental Linage in Sustainable Democratic Governance"
February 16, 2006

Professor Patricia A. McCoy
"Predatory Lending: Who's to Blame?"
January 18, 2006

Professor Tim Casey
"Problem Solving Courts, the Perpetual Reform of the Justice Syetem, and the Possibilities for a Better Future"
November 2005

Professor Michael Tigar
"The Enemy Combatant Doctrine and the Scope of Executive Power"
October 27, 2005

2004-2005

Sir Nicholas Lyell, Q.C
Security, Justice, and Liberty in a Free Society
April 2005

Professor Gerald W. Markowitz
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Disease of Industrial Politics
February 2005

Professor Susan R. Jones
George Washington University Law School
An Economic Justice Imperative
January 2005

Professor Lawrence Cunningham
Boston College Law School
Choosing Gatekeepers: The Financial Statement Insurance Alternative to Auditor Liability
November 2004

Professor Edward G. Rubin
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Charity Begins in Washington, D.C.
October 2004

2003-2004

Professor Lance Compa
Cornell University
Evaluating Workplace Rights in the United States Under International Labor Standards: The Meatpacking Industry Case
March 2004

Professor Saras Jagwanth
University of Cape Town
Beyond Discrimination: Positive Duties to Promote Equality
November 2003

Barry Werth
Author
Privacy, Politics and Hysteria: Lessons from the 1960 Smith College Homosexual Scandal
October 2003

2002-2003

Professor Charles Ogletree
The Current Reparations Debate
April 2003

Professor Marina Angel
Temple University Law School
Women Abused in 1917 and Today: A Jury of Her Peers
March 2003

Professor Eric Muller
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Civil Liberties in Wartime: The Case of the Japanese American Draft Resisters of World War II
February 2003

Hon. Joseph F. Baca
Supreme Court Justice.
The New Federalism
January 2003

2001-2002

Professor Howard Shelanski
University of California at Berkeley
Regulation, Deregulation, and Technological Change
April 2002

Professor Angela Jordan Davis
American University Washington College of Law
The American Prosecutor: Independence, Power, and the Threat of Tyranny
March 2002

Professor Anita Hill
Brandeis University
Social Change and Workplace Realities: How Improved Harmony in the Workplace Affects Productivity
February 2002

Professor Paul Butler
George Washington University School of Law
Punishing the Crimes of Slaves: A Historical and Doctrinal Analysis
February 2002

Professor Joseph Singer
Harvard Law School
Canons of Conquest: The Supreme Courts Attack on Tribal Sovereignty
January 2002

Professor Spencer Overton
University of California at Davis School of Law
But Some are More Equal: Race, Exclusion, and Campaign Finance
October 2001

2000-2001

Professor E. Allan Farnsworth
Columbia Law School
Oops! Reflections on Mistake and the Law
April 2001

Professor Lani Guinier
Harvard University Law School
The Miner's Canary: Rethinking Race and Power
April 2001

Professor Sheryll D. Cashin
Georgetown University Law Center
Middle Class Black Suburbs and the State of Integration: A Post Integrationalist Vision for Metropolitan America
March 2001

Professor Blake D. Morant
Washington and Lee University School of Law
The Paradox of the Televised Fair Trial: Group Theory and the Intuitive Effects of Television
November 2000

Professor Pedro A. Malavet
Frederic G. Levin College of Law, University of Florida
Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony
October 17, 2000

Professor Mary Anne Case
University of Chicago Law School
Molecular Constitutionalism and Community Standards
September 26, 2000

1999-2000

Professor Anthony Paul Farley
Boston College Law School
Jurisprudence & Human Emotions
October 20, 1999

Joan Vermuelen, Esq.
Executive Director, New York Lawyers for Public Interest
Lawyering for Poor Communities in the 21st Century
November 18, 1999

Professor Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
City University of New York
Graduate Center
The Part-time Paradox: Gender, Work, and Family
September 23, 1999

1998-1999

Professor Austin Sarat
Amherst College
Imagining the Law of the Father: Loss, Dread, and Mourning in the Sweet Hereafter
February 22, 1999

Professor William E. Nelson
New York University School of Law
Liberty, Equality, and Opportunity: Progressive Legalism in New York, 1920-1980
November 10, 1998

1997-1998

Professor Robert G. Bone
Boston University School of Law
The Process of Making Process:
A Critical Look at the Procedural Rulemaking
March 30, 1998

Professor David J. Luban
Georgetown University Law Center
Rediscovering Fuller's Legal Ethics
March 6, 1998

Professor Akhil Reed Amar
Yale Law School (Southmayd Professor of Law)
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
November 13, 1997

Professor Anthony V. Alfieri
University of Miami School of Law
Black and White: The Practice of Critical Race Theory
October 23, 1997

Professor Catharine Wells
Boston College Law School
Pragmatism and the Problem of Relativism
October 8, 1997

1996-1997

Professor Brian Z. Tamanaha
St. John's University School of Law
A General Jurisprudence for the Study of Law and Society in the
New Millennium
April 21, 1997

Professor Vicki Schultz
Yale Law School
Reconceptualizing Harassment Law
April 7, 1997

Professor Pamela S. Karlan
University of Virginia School of Law (Roy L. & Rosamond Woodruff Research Professor)
Just Politics?: Five Not So Easy Pieces of the 1995 Term
March 24, 1997

Professor Neil Gotanda
Boston College Law School
The Origins of Racial Categorization in Colonial Virginia, 1619-1705
March 6, 1997

Professor Michael Davis
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Constitutionalism in Global Perspective: Democracy, Rights, and Relativism
February 10, 1997

Professor Eric Orts
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Shirking and Sharking: Agency, Law, Agency Costs, and a Dual Theory of the Firm
October 25, 1996

Professor James E. Fleming
Fordham University School of Law
Fidelity to Our Imperfect Constitution
October 3, 1996

Professor Philip N. Meyer
Vermont Law School
Stories About Legal Writing in Law School, Practice, & Dreams
September 18, 1996

1995-1996

Professor Peter H. Schuck
Yale Law School
Refugee Burden Sharing
April 23, 1996

Professor Jordan M. Steiker
University of Texas School of Law
Decision-making in Capital Cases
April 16, 1996

Professor Paul Finkelman
University of Miami School of Law
Legal Ethics and Fugitive Slaves: The Anthony Burns Case, Judge Loring, and Abolitionist Attorneys
March 4, 1996

1994-1995

Professor Mary E. Becker
University of Chicago Law School
(Almost) No Such Thing as Free Speech at Work
April 28, 1995

Professor Sanford Levinson
University of Texas School of Law
And They Whisper: Some Reflections on Flags, Monuments, and State Holidays, and the Construction of Social Meaning in a Multicultural Society
April 10, 1995

Professor Susan Stefan
University of Miami School of Law
Issues Relating to Women and Ethnic Minorities in Mental Health Treatment Law
February 16, 1995

Professor Gary J. Bernhard
University Without Walls, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Organizational Change
November 28, 1994

Professor Jules L. Coleman
Yale Law School
Mischief and Fortune
November 16, 1994

Professor David Gray Carlson
Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
On the Efficiency of Secured Lending and the Meaning and Use of the Concept of 'The Perfect Market' in Law and Economics
September 26, 1994

1993-1994

Professor Linda S. Mullinex
University of Texas School of Law
Discovery in Disarray: The Pervasive Myth of Pervasive Discovery Abuse and the Consequences for Unfounded Rulemaking
February 22, 1994

Professor Dorothy E. Roberts
Rutgers University, S.I. Center for Law and Justice
Mothers and Crime
December 9, 1993

Professor Frederick Schauer
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Giving Reasons
October 19, 1993

1992-1993

Professor Carol Sanger
Santa Clara University School of Law
Girls and the Getaway: Cars, Culture, and the Law
April 19, 1993

Professor Tracey Maclin
Cornell Law School
The Debate over the Central Meaning of the Fourth Amendment
April 2, 1993

Professor Jack M. Balkin
Yale Law School
Coherence and Legal Understanding
March 5, 1993

Professor Ruth Wedgwood
Yale Law School
Use of Armed Forces in International Affairs: The Case of Panama
October 23, 1992

Professor Zipporah B. Wiseman
University of Texas School of Law
Soia Mentschikoff, 'Notes Toward a Bibliography
October 16, 1992

1991-1992

Professor Kendall Thomas
Columbia University School of Law
Beyond the Privacy Principle: Sexuality, Corporeality and the Constitution of Power
April 2, 1992

Professor Dennis M. Patterson
Rutgers University School of Law-Camden
Doing Law
March 1992

Professor David A. J. Richards
New York University School of Law
The Reconstruction Amendments
February 1992

Professor Jonathan R. Macey
University of Chicago Law School
The Canons of Statutory Construction and Judicial Preference
February 1992

Professor Judy Scales-Trent
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law
Black Women and the Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting
Our Rights
November 1991

Professor Julius G. Getman
University of Texas School of Law
The Strike in Jay, Maine: Employers' Rights to Hire Substitute Workers for Strikers
November 1991

Professor Kathryn Abrams
Boston University School of Law
Sexual Harassment: Second Thoughts on the 'Reasonable Woman
November 1991

Professor Aviam Soifer
Boston University School of Law
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the
1780 Constitution
October 1991

Professor Carol A. Weisbrod
University of Connecticut Law School
Emblems of Federalism
October 1991

1990-1991

Professor Stephen L. Carter
Yale Law School
Affirmative Action
April 1991

Professor Owen M. Fiss
Yale Law School
State Activism and State Censorship
April 1991

Professor Claire Dalton
Northeastern University School of Law
Experience as a Source of Health(y) Law
February 1991

Professor Marilyn Schuster
Smith College
Eliminating Bias and Prejudice from the Law School Classroom
November 1990

Professor James Boyd White
University of Michigan Law School
Justice as Translation
October 1990

Professor Frances E. Olsen
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law
The Sex of Law
October 1990

Professor E. Allan Farnsworth
Columbia University School of Law
For This Relief Much Thanks: Punitive Damages in Arbitration
October 1990

1989-1990

Professor Robert Ackermann
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Feminist Epistemology
May 1990

Professor Randy E. Barnett
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Power, Law, and Legal Discourse
April 1990

Professor Donald N. McCloskey
University of Iowa
Economics and Narrative
March 1990

Professor M. Ethan Katsh
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Technological Change and the Transformation of Law
March 1990

Professor John H. Mansfield
Harvard University Law School, and
Professor Jay Demarath
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Church and State in Springfield
February 1990

Professor Elizabeth V. Spelman
Smith College
The Inessential Woman
February 1990

Professor Arthur Ripstein
University of Toronto
Foundationalism and Political Theory
November 1989

Professor Thomas H. Morawetz
University of Connecticut
School of Law
Critical Legal Studies, Feminism, and a Critique of Law
November 1989

Professor Judith Resnick
University of Southern California Law Center
Group Litigation and Civil Procedure
September 1989

1988-1989

Professor Edwina L. Rissland
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Computer Based Legal Reasoning
April 1989

Professor William N. Eskridge
Georgetown University Law Center
Statutory Interpretation
April 1989